S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - "Frozen", MMOFPS Instead

April 26th, 2012, 01:45

I'm not sure why we had to jump through these hoops to get to the truth but it appears S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 (and GSC Gameworld) is indeed dead and former staffers have gone on to found Vostok Games and are working on a MMOFPS.
This starts with the following tweet:

Despite no official continuation of Stalker 2. it looks like the ideas and spirit will live on in the team's new game - Survarium.

Our company appeared in March 2012 in Kiev. Ten years earlier, when at GSC Game World we started developing the renowned S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series and continued working on it until December 2011 when the studio was unexpectedly shut down and the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 project - frozen," it reads.
"We did not reach agreement with the rights owner regarding the use of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. brand, that's why we made the decision to move forward as an independent studio with a new project. That day became our starting point for Vostok Games.

In my opinion, any legitimate project would publicly comment in light of the ongoing media speculation. Clearly a fair part of the team has moved on and the studio "shut down" for at least 4-5 months. It's as good as dead, semantics aside.

Originally Posted by Dhruin
In my opinion, any legitimate project would publicly comment in light of the ongoing media speculation. Clearly a fair part of the team has moved on and the studio "shut down" for at least 4-5 months. It's as good as dead, semantics aside.

There some mess right now in the country and some people prefer to keep silent,at least up to time, when they make truce with authorities. About company, there no big problem that they gone, Grigorovich is what make this company alive, I don't think that they capable of something alone, but we will see. Also Grigorovich is no poor indie soul, he is in top 200 richest man pool: have 32mln$ and Ferrari F430 Spider sportcar. And there a lot of outsourcing company's in Kiev.